Forrester Wave Cloud Data Warehouse, Q4 2018

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Evaluated Vendors And Inclusion Criteria

 Forrester included 14 vendors in the assessment: Alibaba, AWS, Exasol, Google, Hortonworks, Huawei, IBM, MarkLogic, Micro Focus, Microsoft, Oracle, Pivotal, Snowflake, and Teradata. Each of these vendors has ( see Figure 1 ):

  • A comprehensive CDW offering. Key components of the CDW include the provisioning, storing, processing, transforming, and accessing of data. The CDW should provide features to secure data, enable elastic scale, provide high availability and disaster recovery options, support loading and unloading of data, and provide various data access tools.
  • A standalone data warehouse service running in the public cloud. Vendors included in this evaluation provide a CDW service that organizations can implement or use independent of analytics, data science, and visualization tools. The service should not be technologically tied to or bundled with any particular application or solution.
  • Data warehouse use cases. The CDW service should have customers supporting one or more of the following use cases: IoT analytics; customer 360; advanced analytics; real-time analytics; or others.
  • A referenceable install base. Each vendor has 25 or more unique enterprise paying customers using its CDW service that span more than one major geographical region. Each vendor must provide at least three customer references.
  • A publicly available product. The participating vendors must have a general public release of their CDW service available as of June 1, 2018.
  • Customer interest. We included only vendors that were mentioned several times by customers during Forrester inquiry calls during the past 12 months related to CDW topics.
  • Client inquiries and/or technologies that put the vendor on Forrester's radar. Forrester clients often discuss the vendors and products through inquiries and interviews; alternatively, the vendor may, in Forrester's judgment, warrant inclusion or exclusion in this evaluation because of technology trends and market presence. Forrester reserves the rights to include or exclude any vendor.


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